These examples can be run at the command line. If perl is not in /usr/bin/perl, they can be run with "perl name" They are also called by the test.pl script. For this reason some of the variables in a script are made local when there is no apparant reason. Some of them take the device type as an optional argument. eg, ccurve X ccurve ps Possible devices are "png", "pnm", "gif", "svg", "ai", "cgm", "fig", "pcl", "hpgl", "regis", "tek", or "meta" .